Despite his impressive performance on Thursday, Vettel was not getting carried away with the Ferrari's capabilities ahead of the new campaign.

"The times on these test days don't mean much. The important thing is that the [car] has proved to be very strong, allowing us to run all day without any significant problems," he said.

"We are still working on some things for the first race and it's not really possible to make any predictions based on the performance of the other teams, because everyone is running a different programme.